{"id":7576,"date":"2010-08-06T07:15:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2010-08-06T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T11:15:49","slug":"renault-engine-deal-for-lotus-due-soon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-engine-deal-for-lotus-due-soon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault engine deal for Lotus due soon &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus will reportedly confirm its switch to Renault engine power for the 2011 season during the August break.<\/p>\n<p>The new Malaysian-backed team is currently equipped with Cosworth engines, but Italia Racing believes a team announcement is due within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But just a week ago, Renault engine technical director Rob White said an announcement about the French marque&#8217;s plans for 2011 is not imminent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the capacity to supply additional teams in the future and would be willing to do so if it was good for Renault and for the sport as a whole,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been speculation in the press, with different teams mentioned from time to time, but no announcement is imminent,&#8221; added White.<\/p>\n<p>The original Lotus team was powered by Renault engines between 1983 and 1986.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus will reportedly confirm its switch to Renault engine power for the 2011 season during the August break. The new Malaysian-backed team is currently equipped with Cosworth engines, but Italia Racing believes a team announcement is due within two weeks. But just a week ago, Renault engine technical director Rob White said an announcement about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[353,5262,5340,912,55,1090],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7577,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}